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holiday. Sometimes my good friend. Lord Lonsdale, 

 would invite me to Brigstock to make acquaintance 

 with the Woodland Pytchley. Together with that 

 sportive personality known to his intimates as " Rock " 

 — being an abbreviation of his courtesy title, Lord 

 Rocksavage, subsequently to become Marquis of 

 Cholmondeley — and Lord Burghersh, afterwards Earl 

 of Westmorland, we set out for a round, which in- 

 cluded the Fitzwilliam and Bache Cunard's. 



It was when enjoying a day with the latter that 

 Major Candy — commonly called "Sugar ** — was much 

 scandalized because of the contraption which I had 

 affixed to my saddle to prevent my being jumped off ; 

 for at that time I was suffering from a severe strain of 

 the tailor's (sartorius) muscle in my left leg, which pre- 

 vented me exercising an efficient grip. I may here 

 remark that this same trouble lasted me some years, 

 and even when race riding caused me to assume such 

 an awkward and lop-sided seat that I became the target 

 for the slings and arrows of outrageous jocularity — 

 good-natured when I won, and otherwise when the 

 slinger or archer had backed one of my mounts which 

 had failed to catch the judge's eye. 



But to return to ** Sugar " Candy. We partook of 

 luncheon one day at his shooting-box, and here I met 

 his only daughter " Kitty," destined to become 

 Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most successful 

 breeders and most competent of judges of wire-haired 

 fox terriers that ever lived. From her original stock 



